the Reader to all bookish men that have read the Histories of those years wherein these things are said to fall out and they will tell us that these things are asserted by so many credible Authors at that time living agreeing in the same as takes away all doubt of forgery and slander Or the Reader may find them in Bullinger adv Anabaptist Sleiden hist Heresbachius hist Anabaptistica Lambertus Hortensius of the same Spanhem Diatr hist de Anabap. Joannis Clopenburgius gangrena Anabaptist And also Mr. Robert Baily Mr. Rutterfords Survey And a Peece lately transsated by a Minister of New-England and published by Mr. Hook of the Savoy entituled Johannis Becoldus Redivivus will further satisfie the Reader Anno 1528. Ludovicus Helster Joannis Trajer Seekler and other Enthusiasts were in the matter of Oaths Magistracy c. confuted by Hollerus and Kolvius at Bern and driven to say The Spirit taught them otherwise then the letter of the Scripture spake Rutterfords Surv. p 7. David George born in Delph austere as any Capuchin Frier that did often fast three dayes together by trade a Painter in 1540. did vend these Heresies among others That he was the Son of God the true and spiritual David born of the Spirit whereas Jesus Christ was born of the flesh That the Doctrine of Moses the Prophets Christ and the Apostles was imperfect carnal litteral That his Ministry was the time of perfection when all Ordinances shall be useles That it was the sin against the Holy Ghost to refuse the Spirit in David George his Ministry and to go back to the Prophets and Apostles These seeds he sowed in Germany and Transilvania Rutterfords Survey Gasper Swenck field in Luthers time a great opposer of the Reformation taught That the Doctrine contained in the Scripture is not properly the Word of God but improperly by a Metonimy where the sign is put for the thing signified That Faith and Conversion come not immediately by the Word preached but immediately from heaven by inspiration That the preachers of his time Luther Bucer Calvin Peter Martyr Beza Musculus Grynaeus Tossanus Melancthon c. were not sent of God and that no man was converted or the better for their preaching That no Doctrine in the Scripture CONDUCETH TO SALVATION That God is to be sought in his naked Majesty in dreams inspirations and revelations of the Spirit That our Righteousness and Justification is not in the imputed obedience and righteousness of Christ but in a conformity with Christ in glory by the in-dwelling Spirit of Christ Rutterfords Survey out of the Germne Authors CHAP. V. Of the Quakers of England since the Reformation HEnry Nicholls the head of the Sect called the Family of Love here in England wrote an Epistle to two Daughters of the Earl of Warwick in King Edward the sixth's dayes disswading them from Regeneration by the Word of God read or preached he denied Christ to be God This Epistle was answered by Henry Ainsworth he ascribed his blasphemies and heresies to the holy God as the Author of them saying of himself That he was annointed with the holy Ghost in the old age of the holy understanding of Jesus Christ Goded with God in the Spirit of his love illuminated in the Spirit with the heavenly truth the true light of perfect being That Christ was not God nor man but the state of perfection in believers or annointing or Sabbath or the holy disposition or Godliness That all Ordinances Hearing Preaching Scripture Scripture-learning Baptisme the Lords Supper all confession of Christ before men all externals in Religion are things of no worth indifferent free trivial laid on us by no Law of God That our second Birth is our Saviour Christ. Rutterford That he could no more erre in what he said then could the Prophets of God or Apostles of Christ His Prophet of the Spirit Cl 13. See 8. quoted by Rutterfords Surv. p. 169. Of this Tribe were Hacket Coppinger and Arthington and that great number called Grundletenians from a Village in York-shire where they met in Queen Elizabeths and King James his dayes concerning whom Mr. Richard Baxter affirms in his Treatise of the sin against the holy Ghost p. 149. I had an old godly Friend that lived near them and went once among them and they breathed on him as to give him the holy Ghost and his Family for three dayes after perceived him as a man of another spirit as half in an extasie but coming to himself he came near them no more The hanging of Hacket in Cheapside 1591. who died blaspheming did much marre their matters and Arthingtons Recantation in a Book called His seduction did stay many CHAP. VI. Of the Quakers of New-England BEcause some Enthusiastis agreeing in many heretical and blasphemous Opinions with the Quakers did sail to New-England in the Reign of King Charles among those godly Ministers and people that went thither to free themselves from Prelatical Monarchy let 's follow them and take a view of them Mrs. Hutcheson and her Disciples taught That Love in the Saints is the very holy Ghost As Christ was God manifested in the flesh so is he incarnate and made flesh in every Saint The new creature or new man love or the Armour of God Eph. 6. is not meant of grace but of Christ himself The Faith that justifieth hath not any actual being out of Christ it is Christ believing in us The search and knowledge of the Scriptures is not a safe way of searching and finding Christ A Christian is not bound to the Law as a rule of his Christian walking In the Saints there is no inherent grace but Christ is all Frequency and length of holy duties argues the Party to be under a Covenant of works All Doctrines Revelations and Spirits must be tryed by Christ rather then by the Word The soul need not go out to Christ for fresh supply but is acted by the inhabiting Spirit In the Saints Christ loves prayes believes praises formally in them and they are wholly Christed and Godded A Christian is not bound to pray nor to any spiritual acts but when the Spirit exciteth and moveth him thereunto He that hath the Seal of the Spirit can infallibly judge of another whether he be elected or not No Minister can convey to another more then he hath experience of in his own soul The Law is no rule of life to a Christian Mrs. Hutcheson said Her own Revelations about future events are as infallible as Scripture the holy Ghost is Author of both That she is obliged with certainty of Faith to believe the one as well as the other Rutterfords Surv. out of Welds Narrative Almost every one of these Errors and Blasphemies are the same for Substance with what the present Quakers hold as may be seen by comparing The Errors and Blasphemies of the Gortinians from Sam. Gorten banished out of New-England about the year 1646. That the Ministers and Churches of New-England that are not
God were sent Prophets and Apostles Answer to Brecks Letter p. 4 5. Of the Tryall of Spirits and Doctrines 101. That the infallible Spirit in the Saints is the sole tryer of all spirits and Doctrines and they are not to be tryed by the Scriptures James Nailors Answer to Fr. Harris p. 9. Geo. Whithead against Clapham p. 13. 102. That the Spirits are to be tryed whether they be of God or be the Spirit of errour delusion and darkness not by the Scriptures but by truth which is eternall and infallable by the same eternall infallable Spirit as spoke forth the Scriptures and was before Scripture was written and this Spirit gives judgment upon thee Edw. Breck and knows thee and tryes thee and thy light which is the Scripture and judgeth thy Spirit to be a fallible lying Spirit And this Spirit and judgment do we Q witness and this shall be Answered by that of God in all Consciences Answer to Mr. Edw. Breck of New-england his Letter p. 8. 103. That a mans being charged with lyes errour falshood by the Quakers is an infallable proof of his guilt Answer to Mr. Breck p. 16. Farnworths Answer to Hagger and Pollard p. 14. 104. Thou saith Edw. Burroughs indeavourest to prove thy accusation by vain consequences and false conclusions but our assertion is proved by the Spirit of God or the light that every one is inlightned with Burroughs against Firmin p. 14. which Spirit or light is to be exalted above all things as the searcher and tryer of all things and Spirits and is not to be judged or tryed by the Scriptures Burroughs against Firmin p. 15 16. Of the Popery of the Quakers By this we may clearly see that they are in many of their opinions very Popish agreeing with the Papists in all these things 1. That the Ministers of the Reformed Churches are not true Ministers 2. Nor the Ordinances Administred by them the Ordinances of Christ 3. That a man is justified by the merit of good works by inherent righteousness 4. That the Scriptures should not be read by the ignorant and unlearned 5. That the Church hath an infallable unerring Spirit to try and judg of Scripture it self is to be judged by none whose dictates and determinations are of as great Authority as the Scripture 6. And as the Papists by their Doctrine of the Reall Corporeall presence of Christ in many thousand places at once overthrow as much as in them lyeth the Articles of Christs Humanity viz. of his being a reall Man of his suffering death rising ascending and sitting at the right hand of God So the Quakers destroy the Humanity of Christ by denying his being corporcally in Heaven and affirming that he hath but one Body which is his Church and that God manifest in flesh is to be understood in the Saints Also their opinion That the Magistrate is not to meddle with matters of Religion unless to pull down the Reformed Religion is a plain Point of Popery And for the truth of these I appeale to all men in the world that know what Popery is and they are many Millons that shall also read the Opinions of the Quakers in this Catalogue CHAP. III. Of the Actions and Manners of the Quakers THey will not put off their Hatts nor bow their bodies to the greatest Persons The Parliament 1659 appointed a Committee of purpose to hear their Complaints before which the Quakers stood covered and thou'd and thee'd the Chair-men and Members thereof to the greatest dishonour of the Authority of England as ever was admitted They will not petition to men no not the highest Powers but Councel and Command Witness all their Addresses to the Protectors and Parliaments in Print many of them to be seen They will not take an Oath before a Magistrate or otherwise saying it is unlawfull And yet this Summer 1659. to revenge themselves of some Countrey men about Sawbridgworth in Hartfordshire for affronting them they could freely swear against them in order to the binding them over to the Sessions and rail against St. T. H. a Justice of the Peace accusing him in Print for not taking the Parliaments new Engagement They say the Magistrate hath nothing to do to meddle in matters concerning Religion and yet do continually importune him to pull down Religion as is well known to all the late Authorityes and thousands more by Edward Burrow's Letters to the Protectors and other Papers Printed They cry up Liberty of Conscience but are not willing to give it to others How many thousand times have some Ministers or other in all parts of the Laud been most impudently disturbed by them in their publike religious exercises is so well known that none but John Impudence will deny it They are notorious Lyars for all their Blasphemies and Errors are so many lyes Not because I say they are lyes that 's their common disproof but because they are contrary to the Law and the Testimony the Scriptures as all do know and can witness that have savingly learned those Statutes and so are taught of God If St. Paul himself had told the Bereans that for Masters and Mistresses to make their Servants read the Scripture is Treason against the King of Saints and his tender Lambs as Mason against Mr. Rayner doth See Catal. Educa would not they who tryed his Doctrine by the Scriptures and therefore are called noble Acts 17.11 have told him he lyed 2. Every one of the Quakers saith he is taught and guided by an infallible Spirit and is without sin And that they are all so and that 's a lye with a latchet as I 'le prove presently by another way then by comparing what they say with the Scripture though that 's the best way even by their notorious contradicting one another Many instances might be given I 'le only name one or two Hubberthorn in his Truths defence against Refined Subtilties p. 101. doth affirm That the wicked are not to read the Scriptures but the godly and gives his wise Reasons for it But Burroughs against Firmin p. 16. allows only the wicked and ungodly Such as the Scribes and Pharisees were to search and read the Scriptures and not the godly Here 's a plain opposition and contradiction from which I infer that both of them did not write truth they were not both guided and directed by an unerring infallible Spirit and consequently that to say all the Quakers have the guidance of such a Spirit ey and that in all their speeches and writings as they say they have is such a lye as I called it And there is that in all men that will not offer violence to their Reasons that will witness to the truth hereof Take but one more instance James Natlor in his Answer to Francis Harris useth the name SCRIPTURE and the WORDOF THE LORD indifferently as convertible termes as being fullfilled by mens coming from far and sitting down in the Kingdome c. thereby contradicting his well known elsewhere
of their way are Antichrists Idolizers false Teachers Vngodly c. That the rising of their Sect is the Messenger of the Covenant Christ coming to his Temple That whatever it is the Saints utter in point of Religion must be the voice of the Son of God That Christs death and suffering is nothing else but the dying and suffering of the Saints He denied there being three Persons in one God That Christ was a single man true man and died for us The Resurrection And affirmed That Christ reveals his will by no voice but the voice of the Spirit in the Saints That swearing at all though before a Judge is unlawfull That those that study for their Sermons are Idol Shepheards of Rome Simplicityes defence against seven headed policy quoted by Rutterfords Surv. I my self did hear this Gorten affirm about the year 1647. in a Sermon in Coleman-street that whatever shall have an end was a carnal Ordinance and from the Devil for he made them convertible terms and instanced in Baptisme Lords Chaplains Ruling Elders c. The Reader may see what plain Quakerisme these things are by comparing them with the following Catalogue PART II. THus having brought the Reader down to these times wherein we live I shall now shew 1. How the Quakers of these dayes came so suddenly to multiply 2. What their Opinions and Practices are And 3. What the design of Satan is in stirring up such kinde of people And so conclude with a Prayer to God to reduce them and in the mean time to preserve me and all others from their infection and rage CHAP. I. Of the Quakers of these dayes Shewing how they came so quickly to encrease as they have done And the Diversity of them 1. THe old Church-Government being quite taken away and no new one set up in its stead all Laws that enjoyned people to heat Gods Word repealed and the wayes of proceeding against Hereticks dying with the Government factions and animosities breaking out into an unhappy War in which the reins of men being more loose and Souldiers having both provocations to stir up their pride passion and dissent from their enemies to the heigth and also opportunity to vent their opinions and to propagate them with less contradiction as being removed further from the inspection of able Ministers A few Anabaptists Antinomians Familists that were the spawn of the forementioned Family of Love Henry Nicholls and the Grundletonians but shrouding themselves at first under the name of Independents and Seperatists upon pretence only of some corruptions in the Church did grow in two or three years time to a multitude spreading themselves and their conceits through the several Cities and Countries and Armies untill at last through the just hand of God their combining for Tolleration the great industry of disguised Jesuits and their many flagitious abominable practices they arrived to that height and * The number of Quakers of all sorts that deny Christ his Scripture Ministry and Ordinances is no doubt 150000. in England number and to those advantages for the propagation of their wayes which our eyes have seen and the faithfull do lament Oh what a great lump hath a little Leaven leavened And for brevity sake take the words of a great observer of the times A man would scarce have believed that saw the first spring of Seperation and Anabaptistry among us that it would have produced those fearfull effects which we have since beheld The Devil hath now got such an * Ths was written five years ago How greatly are they encreased since then Army of Hereticks to spit their venome daily in the face of Christ that we may hear daily from their voices whether Satan be for Christ or against him From Separation and Anabaptisme and Antinomianisme they are proceeded to such madness and abominable conceits and to so great variety of them as I scarce read of in any time of the Church except in the dayes of the Simonions Nicolaitans and the rest of the Gnosticks in and near the dayes of the Apostles and in the time of David George and some others at the Reformation When many both Rulers and People desired endeavoured and expected such a Reformation as to have seen a plenty of faithfull Teachers and Discipline faithfully exercised and God purely and seriously worshipped we could not foresee What grievous Wolves should enter not sparing the flock and that of our own selves should men arise speaking perverse things to draw away Disciples after them Acts 20.29 30. So that I think we may almost compare with the first Hereticks for vileness and variety Some we have that turn Socinians some turn Libertines and some Familists some Seekers and some down-right Infidels Besides these we have had and yet have a horrible Sect of men called Ranters who make it their very Religion to swear out the most foul-mouthed Oaths by multitudes and openly blaspheme the God of Heaven and so meet and dance and roar together and commit whoredoms and filthiness without shame so that they seem to match the Simonians and Nicolaitans They fall into frensies and there lie with their bodies swelled strangely acted and then fall into their raptures and blasphemings Act of O. C. against Blaspheming which proves the truth of these things When the Law began to restrain these for their wicked practices the same deceivng Spirit raiseth up another Sect in their stead called Quakers who hold many of their Doctrines and take their course in many other respects Only instead of ranting open wickedness they pretend to as great mortification of the flesh as the ancient Eremites and more They fall into trances swell quake and tremble and yell and roar and after the fit is over fall a threatning Judgements sometimes against common sinnes but the life and venome of all their speeches and endeavours is against the Ministry Baxters sin against the Holy Ghost p. 151. to make them odious in the eyes of the people The said Author goes on and names a more soberer sort possest with the fancies of Jacob Bemon the German paracelsian Prophet and the Rosiecrusians that set themselves mainly to a mortification of bodily desires and delights and advancing the intellective part above the sensitive which is well but the Doctrine of Christ crucified and Justification by him is little minded by them They do as the Quakers maintain the Popish Doctrine of Perfection That they can live without sin or that some of them can They aspire after visible Communion with Angels and many of them pretend to have attained it and frequently to see them The rest have that immediate intuition of verities by the Spirit within them or by revelation that it is above meer rational apprehension and therefore they will not dispute nor be moved by any Arguments or Scriptures that you bring affirming that Rationation cannot prevail against their intuition The summe of their Doctrines is That we must be perfect And for subjecting the
p. 11. 25. By the power of it is the Creature brought into the world James Nailors Answer to Winterton p. 7. 26. It revealeth without the Scripture the lives and actions of Christ and his Apostles and of the Resurrection to judgment Farnworth against Hagger and Pollard p. 55 58. 27. That nothing else can reveale Christ Edw. Burroughs Answer to Bunion p. 18. 28. By this light all the holy men of God were taught that gave forth the Scriptures Edw. Burroughs Truth defended p. 17. What it is 29. Christ is this light Fox his Exhortation in James Nailors Answer to Higgenson p. 5. James Nailors Answer to Pendarvis p. 6. 30. It s the light and Spirit of Christ James Nailors wickedness weighed p. 22. 31. It is the light Spirit and power of God unto salvation which is the Gospel of Christ Farnworth against Hagger p. 57. 32. It is the perfect Law of liberty Ja. Nailors Answer to Higgenson p. 5. 33. The Lord God and the Lamb is the light within men Farnworth against Higgenson p. 54. 34. It is the light of the Covenant of grace James Nailors Answer to Fr. Harris p. 15. 35. This light in all men is God and when Paul committed them to God it was to the light within them Farnworth against Hagger p. 48. 36. It s the word of faith which the Apostles Preached Edw. Burroughs against Firmin p. 18. 37. It is reason and understanding that is in every Man Edw. Burroughs against Firmin p. 19. 38. It is a perfect rule in every mans Conscience where man is guided by it ibid. p. 18. 39. That in a man which is just equall and righteous telling him he ought not to do wrong Answer to Berks Letter p. 6. 40. And that reproves him in secret of his secret iniquities Answer to Griffith p. 33. 41. It s the light life and power of God the just and living truth from which the Scriptures were spoken forth Answer to Berks Let. p. 7. 42. It s that of God in a mans Conscience Answer to Berk p. 20. Humph. Smith reply to Edm. Skip p. 17. 43. It is the light of Israel Hubherthorns Answer to T. Winterton p. 3. 44. This light with which Christ enlightneth every one that comes into the world is the same thing with the life and light of Adam in Paradice but when he went into the selfish knowledg he became brutish and this a witness against him Hubberthorn against Tho. Winterton p. 8. 45. This light is the grace of God that teacheth to deny all ungodliness c. and this grace is Christ himself Masons Answer to Rayners Precepts p. 20. 46. This light in every mans Conscience is the right heir give him the kingdome of your hearts this is the Son of God in whom he is well pleased Mason against Rayners Precepts p. 49. 47. It is no other thing than the light of the Gospel Edw. Burroughs Answer to Bunnion p. 18. 48. It is the same light with the annointing both in believers and unbelievers Truths defence against refined subtilty by Geo. Fox and R. Hubberthorn p. 67. Of judgeing and discerning mens hearts and persons 49. That the Saints by the Spirit that is in them can judg of mens hearts not by outward appearance and that such judging is Christs judging of men And that Christ shall judg no where else but in his Saints James Nailors Answer to Jo. Pendarvis p. 7. Of Justification 50. That that is a blind Doctrine which Preaches that righteousness which justifieth is not in them James Nailor against Higgenson p. 6. Burroughs against Firmin p. 21. 51. He that hath a covering for his sins no nearer then above the Stars will one day be found naked James Nailors Answer to Higgenson p. 8. 52. The obedience of Christ and of the Creatures is not two obediences but one James Nailors Answer to Higgenson p. 22. 53. Christ Jesus made manifest and revealed in us is our righteousness for justification Ed. Burroughs Truth defended p. 12. 54. The faith of God justifieth alone without imputation thy imputation to thy dead works without thee we do deny Truths defence against refined subtilty p. 93. 55. That Christ bought us not with the price of his blood that was shed upon the Cross at Jerusalem 56. That the blood of Christ is but one as ever 't was by which we are redeemed from our vain conversation That this blood is our witness and seal by which we are redeemed but not at Jerusalem only but made manifest in us Truths defence against refined subtilty p. 95. Of faith and its Object 57. God hath given his Son who is not only that light which inlightneth every one that comes into the world but to all that believe therein and follow it he leads them out of darkness thereby and gives them the light of life James Nailors Answer to Higgenson p. 17. 58. Without faith in the light of Christ within a man a man cannot know the things of God nor have his duties accepted James Nailors Answer to Beacon p. 9. 59. He that believes in the light and follows Christ who is the light shall have the light of life Hubberthorns Answer to Winterton p. 2. The light within also is asserted to be the Object of Faith By James Nailors Answer to Fr. Harris p. 26. id against Jo. Beacon p. 39. id Answer to Tho. Winterton p. 7. Mason against Jhonson p. 3. We must believe in the light James Nailors Answer to Harris p. 26. Of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament 60. Mr. Breck of New-England asks How came you to know there was ever such a man in the world as Jesus Christ They answer not by the Prophets nor by the witnesse of his holy Apostles and Evangelists left in their holy Record of the New Testament but by the eternall infallible Spirit Answer to Edw. Breck p. 16. l. 34. compared with his Letter prefixed p. 9. Quest 2. 61. That it is dangerous for the ignorant and unlearned to read the Scripture 1. Because they are made use of against the Saints 2. The Ministers of it are the Ministers of death 3. They make a trade with it yet the holy Brethren may read them Truths defence against refined subtilty By Hubberthorn p. 101. 62. But if any raise from the Scripture points tryals motives uses he adds to the Scripture and to him are added the curses and plagues Rev. 22.18 Truths defence against refined subtilty p. 101. Whithead against Clapham p. 11. 63. That the Scriptures are for the perfecting the Man of God and not for the instruction of others for that is for destruction 64. It is the man of sin that talks and prates of the Scriptures who is exalted above all that is called God in thee Truths defence against refined subtilty By Hubberthorn p. 102. 65. That the Scripture is not the Word of God nor a standing Rule James Nailors Answer to Baxters Q. Cat. p. 26. 66. It is not a perfect
Rule of faith and conversation to walk By Farnworth against Hagger and Pollard p. 22 43. Answer to Io. Griffeth p. 19 32. 67. That to limit a man to the Scriptures to Preach nothing but what he can prove from the vissible Rule of the Scriptures is to debar and limit God Rich. Farnworth against Hagger and Pollard p. 3. 68. That faith comes not by hearing the Scriptures Preached 69. That the Scripture is not the Gospel 70. That men may be saved without it and comforted though disowning the Scriptures Farnworth against Hagger and Pollard p. 21 22. 71. That he that hath no light to walk or speak by but the Scriptures is not like to speak truth Answer to Mr. Breck of N. Eng. Letter p. 7. 72. He is dead in sin that hath no other light nor way to salvation but what he hath out of the Scripture Answer to Mr. Brecks Letter p. 17. 73. Jeremiah Ives Quoting Lev. 19.32 to prove some honour dne unto men which James Nailor Answers in scorn thus What a standing rule is this word of yours the Scriptures that the deceit can thus turn quite into another thing than it speaks The Devil likes such a word as he can turn every way to plead for his Kingdome James Nailors Answer to Ives p. 22. 74. That it is the Devil in men that contends for the Scripture to be the Word of God James Nailors Answer to Ives p. 22. 75. That the Bible is not the written Word of God but a declaration of Christ the Word Answer to Io. Beacon p. 9. 76. The Scripture is not the Gospel that is Christ Jesus that cannot be contained in Paper and Ink. Parnels Goliahs head cut off p. 17. Farnworth against Hagger p. 35. 77. That the light which is in all the Indians Americans and other Pagans on earth is sufficient without Scriptures James Nailors Answer to Baxter p. 48. Concerning the Ordinances of Jesus Christ. 78. Psalmes That Davids Psalmes are not to be sung in Meeter Truths defence against refined subtilty By Geo. Fox and Rich. Hubberthorn p. 18 20. 79. Preaching That such a Minister that ownes not the Quakers way as takes a Text of Scripture and makes a Sermon upon it is a Conjurer and what he raiseth must needs be Conjuration James Nailor against Ives p. 13. 80. That he is a false Prophet and a Deceiver which hath not the word immediately from the mouth of the Lord but takes that which the Lord spoke to another and the Prophets Christs and the Apostles words and calls it Gods word and saith the Lord saith it Edw. Burroughs Truth defended p. 4. 81. That to raise Points Tryals Motives and Uses is adding to the Scriptures Truths defence against refined subtilty By Fox and Hubberthorn p. 40. James Nailors Answer to Io. Beacon p. 40. 82. Water-baptisme is denyed and affirmed to be no Ordinance of Christ. James Parnell and James Nailors Answer to Ives p. 14 29. Geo. Whithead against Clapham of singing Psalmes p. 11. 83. That it is a beasticall carnall earthly Tradition never commanded Truths defence against refined subtilty By Geo. Fox and Rich. Hubberthorn p. 98. 84. Lords Supper Mr. Kellet in Laxcheshiere Queries Whether did not Christ institute his last Supper with Bread and Wine Richard Hubberthorn Answers him That Christ spake not of Bread and Wine but the Bread which Christ called his Body is to be understood of the Church that are many Members but one Body 85. But the Cup which thou drinkest we do deny for thy Cup is the Cup of Devils and thy Table is the Table of Devils which is an Idol and imitation and thy Sacrifice is to Devils and not to God And this Answer to Mr. Kellets Q. he saith is by the Spirit of the Lord. Defence against refined subtilty p. 99. And not only this but saith he Our giveng forth Papers and Printed Books is from the immediate eternall Spirit of God p. 104. Of all the Ordinances together 86. The Sacraments and Ordinances are beggerly Rudiments Commandements and Doctrines of Men and not the Ordinance of God Answer to Edw. Brecks Letter p. 10. 87. Although they are commanded by Christ yet to continue but for a time a figure of a substance which being 〈…〉 the Saints the figure ceaseth Answer to Griffith p. 16. Edw. Burroughs Truth defended p. 11. 88. They are unholy Duties and Ordinances Masons Answer to Rayner p. 17. 89. There is not any profit in sprinkling Infants or your Bread and Wine and those that partake in those Ordinances were never yet washed from their sins and pollutions James Parnels Goliahs head cut off p. 73. Whithead against Clapham p. 11. Edw. Burroughs Truths defence p. 11. 90. Preaching the Word Praying Singing are no appointments of Christ but the inventions of men Truth defended against refined subtilty By Geo. Fox and R. Hubberthorne 91. The Priests taking Tythes in the time of the Law was evill and proved them to be false Prophets and Deceivers Burroughs Truth defended p. 5. 92. That the light of God and of Christ which is affirmed to be in every mans Conscience that comes into the world commanded circumsion and the seanenth day to be kept a Sabbath and the worship in the Temple c. And it was the same light that led the Disciples from these things to deny them and yet no offence to God nor contradiction in the light of Christ Burroughs Answer to Firmin p. 20. Of the Sabbath 93. No Sabbath to be kept Answer to Edw. Brecks Letter p. 9. Of Ordination or Call to the Ministry 94. The Ministers of God never were sent forth from God by a mediate sending but were immediately sent Rich. Farnworths Answer to the Westmorland Ministers Petition p. 5. Of Oathes 95. That it is not lawfull to take an Oath before a Magistrate no not to end a Controversie and that he who affirmes it is thereby found in the condemnation of the Devil James Parnels Goliahs head cut off p. 70 71. Of Perfection 96. That those that have received Christ and God are come to perfection because God and Christ are perfection James Nailors Answer to Ives p. 13. 97. That all such as are in Christ are without sin Farnworth against Hagger and Pollard p. 7. Of Sinne. 98. That the Doctrine of Originall Corruption whereby we are deprived of the Image of God c. is a soul destroying God blaspheming Doctrine Masons Answer to Rayner p. 13. Of Vnion with God 99. That the substance of the Diety is communicable unto man so as to confound the natures and change man into the devine substance and essence Masons Answer to Rayners precepts p. 23. compared with Mr. Rayners deniall of such a Union in his Precepts Of the Sufferings of the Quakers 100. That it is for no other cause but for bearing witness for the living God and his truth as it is made manifest in us by the same spirit and life and power as all the holy men of
this substance is the same holy Ghost by which the Apostles were endued and the Christ of God the Redeemer from sin That the Garden of Eden is the world that the Trees thereof are all living beings That Paradice is in man That man fell by harkning to the wicked which was the fleshly mind and that not the Woman properly but the silliest and weakest part was the Woman that tempted him That Adam was the earthly nature in Man That the Redeemer of Man is not that person the Son of God that dyed at Jerusalem but the light which is in every particular Man by which he is given to see sin and inabled by it if obedient to be redeemed from sin That searching the Scriptures is not the way to find out the knowledg of Christ but the turning the mind within there to be taught the measure of God the Law written in the heart That Scripture ought not to be interpreted This Collection following of the Opinions of the Quakers was made by two very Reverend and most credible men Mr. Christopher Fowler and Mr. Simon Ford Ministers of the Gospell in Reading in their Book Intituled A sober Answer to an Angry Epistle of Tho. Speeds a Quaker in Bristol The Quakers Doctrines 1. Sect. 54. Perfect Pharisee p. 3. See also the Relation of the it-religious Northern Quakers THat they are equall with God as holy just and good as God himself Affirmed by G. Fox and J Nailor before Witnesses who attest it in a Book called the perfect Pharisee published by five Ministers of Newcastle 2. Sultable hereunto was the Blasphemy of one of your she-Quakers lately in hold in this Town who being convented before the Major of this Corporation and asked what she was and what was her name roundly answered and stood to it again the next day I AM THAT I AM which will be attested upon Oath by the Major and one of the Constables 3. Suitable to this was the Blasphemy of another of your Brethren who meeting with a godly Londiner occasionally being in this Town on a Lords day lately and asking him the way as he met him to one of our Churches answered him in these words The Church is in God and the Church is God 4. That the being of God is not distinct from them that are begotten by him Sword of the Lord by James Atkinson Quaker 5. That the Nature and Glory of the Elect differ not from the Nature and Glory of the Creator For the Elect are one with the Creator in his Nature enjoying his glory That the Elect is not distinct from the Creator Howgill and Burroughs two Quakers in an answer to Reeve 6 And that God is not distinct from living Creatures for in him living Creatures lives moves c. 7. That God is three Persons or subsistences they say is a lye That there is no distinctions of Persons in the Godhead Sword of the Lord by J. Atkinson G. Fox Errand to Damascus 8. That the soul is a part of the Divine Essence See perfect Pharisee p. 6. 9. That Jesus Christ is God and Man in one person they say is a lye 10. They deny and detest this Doctrine That Christ being the only God and Man in one person remaines for ever a distinct person from all Saints and Angels notwithstanding their Vnion and communion with him Sword of the Lord by James Atkinson 11. That the person that Son of God which died at Jerusalem is not the Redeemer of Man from sin but the Redeemer is in every man that light by which he is given to see him c. The discourse of a Quaker with J. Toldervy Foot out of the Snare p. 7. 12. That Christ is in every man even Heathen Indians and in the Reprobates he is hold under corruption 13. That Christ was a man had his failings for he distrusted God upon the Crosse J. Nailor See perfect Pharisee p. 7. Rob. Collison See Gilpins Book p. 2. 14. That we are not justified by that righteousness of Christ which he in his own person did fulfill without us And that whosoever expects to be saved by him that died at Jerusalem shall be deceived For Christ in the flesh was in all that he died and suffered a Figure and nothing but an example 15. That we are therefore to be saved not by the righteousness of Christ imputed to us but by the righteousness of Christ inherent in us See both these in the perfect Pharisee with their Testimonies p. 9 10 11. And Howgill and Burroughs Answer to Bennet Q. 9. And another to the same purpose saith That the faith and justification which stands in the comprehension of Christ without will stand us in no stead Fr. Gawler to Mr. Miller of Cardiff 16. That God and man cannot be perfectly reconciled till he be brought into the state of the first Adam and able in his own power to stand perfect And that holy workes and lives of Saints are not excluded from justification Howgill c. Answer to Bennets 11 12 Quaeries 17. That no man that is not perfectly holy or commits sin can ever enter into the Kingdome of Heaven except there be a Purgatory And there is no Saint but he that is so perfectly holy in this life without sin 18. That to Preach the impossibility of such a freedome here on earth is to Preach up sin while the world stands and to bring men into Covenant with the Devill for tearm of life Nailor perfect Pharisee p. 11 12 13. See also J. Parnell Shield of faith p. 29. to both these Nailor in his answer to Mr Baxter p. 28. 19. That Christ took not humane flesh upon him at any time otherwise then he daily doth and that Christ is now conversant on earth among men since his ascension as he was in the Apostles times It is the summe of Howgills and Burroughs answer to two Quaeries of Mr Bennet See Howgill c. in their answer to Bennets 18 and 19 Qu. 20. That the Scriptures are not the Word of God This is their constant judgment though they dare not profess it for fear of the Law as one of the most eminent in these parts confessed before the Magistrates here in the hearing of one of us asking Whether if the Bible were burnt the Word of God were burnt or words sully to this purpose See the proof perfect Pharisee p. 23. T.C. Parnells book p. 10. saith He that saith the Letter is the Word is a Deceiver 21. That they had a light in them sufficient to lead them to salvation if they had never seen or heard of the Bible The substance of this was affirmed before some Magistrates of this Town and one of us by the same party And this light extended to Heathen Indians by him Suitable to the assertions of James Nailor in a discourse of his in the Book quoted here And he that saith the Letter is the Rule and guid of the people of God is without feeding
upon the Husk c. p. 11. See way to the Kingdome p. 8. See perfect Pharisee p. 17 18. 22. That the Scriptures are not the Saints Rule of knowing God and living unto him but that which was before the Scriptures were written This is also your own concerning which anon more at large Atkinson ubisupra p. 1. Parnell p. 11. 23. That there is no need of outward teachings by reading or hearing of the Scriptures opened and applyed See perfect Pharisee p. 20. 24. That no mens interpretations of the Scripture or Arguments from them are to be received except those that give them are infallible See Quakers Cat. published by Mr Baxter where the Quaerists require Infallibility in a Minister And perfect Pharisee p 23. This is generally their strain We renounce and deny all your meanings interpretations arguments calling them adding to the Scriptures And concerning it we must have a brush or two with you anon 25. That the light in them is the Gospell and the more sure word of Prophecy so sure that some of them say That it is a like for to take a sentence out of their Letters and Preach from it as to take a sentence out of Pauls Epistles Discovery of mysticall Antichrist displaying Christs Banners p. 15 and 33. 26. That there is no call to the Ministry but an immediate Call which is generally proclaimed by them See perfect Pharisee p. 29. J. Parnell p. 16. 27. There is no Baptisme of Christ but with the holy Ghost and fire And no Supper of the Lord but in the spirituall part for as for the visible part The Bread which the world breakes is carnall and naturall See perfect Pharisee p. 28. and J. Parnell p 12 13. 28. That singing Davids Psalmes in English Meeter is to sing the Ballads of Hopkins and Sternhold King James his Fidlers And to sing them is to turn the Scriptures into lies and blasphemies One of them in a Letter here at Reading Henry Clarke in his description of the Prophets p. 9. 29. That God made not man to be Lord over Man but over Creatures and therefore amongst them there are no Superiours after the flesh But are there any Superiours over them then that are not among them see in the next Article J. Parnell p. 22 23. 30. That Christ comes to fulfill and end all outward Lawes and Government of man Ja. Parnell p. 18 19. The righteous are from under the outward Law for they are a Law to themselves Especially if Magistrates be wicked that is not of them the Author quoted in the Margin denies them utterly 31. Ja. Parnell p. 37. That there is no Sabbath now but an everlasting Sabbath and that our Sabbath is but a shadow of which they have the substance and that the first day in the week is no Sabbath 32. That we may not pray before and after Sermons or at set times daies and houres because these things were in the Generation which were enemies to Christ Quaeries sent to the Congregation at Stopport printed in a Book of Mr Eaton 33. That the Ratters themselves had a pure convincement which did convince them And what their convincements were most men know To wit that there is no Heaven Hell Resurrection Judgment to come that there is no sin but what a Man thinks to be so that all that they did was done by the Eternity in them c. Geo. Fox and J. Nailor in a book called A word from the Lord p. 13. 34. That that word 1 John 1.8 If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves was spoken by the carnall man Fr. Gawler See Antichrist in man by Mr Miller of Cardiff p. 7. Idem ibid. 35. That if a man hath sin in him he hath none of Christ 36. They will not acknowledge that Christ ascended with his body into Heaven Idem ibid. Since my Catalogue of the Errors and Blasphemies of the Quakers was Printed off I thought good to make this Addition following Of the Trinity WE deny the term of three distinct Persons which you call God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost Whitehead and Geo. Fox against Mr. Smith the Library keeper of Cambridg p. 2. Printed 1659. Of the Authority of the speeches and writings of the Quakers Quest Do you esteem of your speakings to be of as great Authothority as any Chapters in the Bible Answ That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any is of as great Authority as the Scriptures or Chapters are and greater as Christs words were of greater Authority when he spake then the Pharisees reading the Letter This was Writ and Published by Geo. Whitchead and Geo. Fox the younger in their Truth defended against Mr. Tho. Smith of Cambridge 1659. And themselves say it was written from the Spirit of Truth in Geo. Whitehead and Geo. Fox the younger see the Title Page of Truth defending the Quakers and p. 7. here it is plainly though most grosly and blasphemously affirmed that the Quakers speakings are of greater Authority than the Scriptures Of the Morall Law or Ten Commandements No Rule to the Christians life Whitehead and Geo. Fox against Mr. Smith p. 18. In which Book also these Doctrines are owned That Christs coming in the flesh was but a Figure p. 20. That it s no sin to mend an old Doublet on the Communion Table on the Lords Day in Sermon time though forbidden by the Parrishioners p. 20 21. Of Justification Good works are the meritorious cause of our Justification Fisher the Quaker in the Dispute with Mr. Tho. Danson at Sandwitch Printed 1659. These following Stories I had from my very good Friend Mr. W. Allen of London who will if occasion be satisfie any concerning the truth of them By which as well as by some of the former may be seen that the Devill doth extraordinarily act in and by many of the Quakers A Maid in London being met by a Quaker who addressed himselfe to her with suits of Love was perswaded to drink with him The Quaker took something out of a Paper and put into the drink and in discourse told her she should come after him and that he need not come after her The Maid after this found pressing inclinations within her selfe to go to the Quakers Meeting and was brought into strange Raptures and found her mind exceedingly turned against the Bible And some Christian Friends of hers having observed her to have been under sore distempers as well of body as mind for a certaintime at last kept a day of fasting and Prayer for her having her then in their company though not without much relactancy on her part Whilst they were thus seeking God for her she found her selfe greatly tormented and her body sweld so much that they were fain to unloose her Cloathes to give her ease But before they had finished that daies work she found her selfe delivered and since acknowledged to me the great mercy of God to her in recovering her